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Tweak says, "captain astro"

Mia Jesbar (miaj) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-01-15 18:53:00

Entry tags:

jamie madrox, mia jesbar, plotty mcplot

Who: Mia J and Jamie
What: It's plotty mcplot
When: Today
Where: X-Factor

Mia was confused. She didn't recognize this room or know how she'd gotten here. The chair and the desk were way too big for her, and the computer... well, that looked ancient or like it belonged on a backwater planet. "Hello?"

A big friendly dog in the room raised its head and got up to walk over and sniff her. Mia rubbed its ears and looked at the collar and identification tag. "Isabel? Your name is Isabel?" The dog seemed to like this and tried to lick her face. She laughed and turned her face away, then went for the door.

The room outside seemed deserted too. "Is anybody there? Mom? Dad?"

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	miaj 2008-01-16 02:17 am UTC (link)
	"What's Kansas? I don't think I recognize this planet." She frowned. "Why are there no speeders?" Mia's ten year old face scrunched up, somewhat sympathetic. "I haven't been to a farm, but they sound sooo boring. Why do you live on one?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_multiplicity
2008-01-16 02:19 am UTC (link)

"Kansas. Like the state." Jamie gave Mia a Look. "What's a speeder?" He thought for a moment. There seemed no real fear in his voice, just curiosity and amusement. "Are you an alien?!"

"It's pretty boring." He shrugged. "Have to. That's where my parents chose to live." He wouldn't come right out about his powers. Not just yet. Probably was a good idea to be careful. He never knew if he'd been kidnapped by mutant haters or something.

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	miaj 2008-01-16 02:24 am UTC (link)
	"I've never heard of Kansas." She gave him a look that said he was utterly stupid. "Of course I'm not an alien! I'm human! Do I look like an alien to you?" She went back to peeking out the window, frustrated at her lack of height. "It sounds boring. Do you have any friends to play with?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_multiplicity 2008-01-16 02:26 am UTC (link)
	"If you've never heard of Kansas, you could be an alien. It's one of the fifty states." He said with with an index finger raised as if to tell Mia that this was all very elementary. "No. It's just me and mom and dad." A pause, where he gave her a sidelong glance. "Well.... I mean." He almost let something slip. "Yeah. Just us." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2008-01-16 02:29 am UTC (link)
	"Aliens are non-humans. I'm a human," she said certainly, then rolled her eyes at his obvious misuse of words. "We should try to find out where we are." She frowned a little but didn't mention it. "You don't have any friends? Don't you go to school?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_multiplicity 2008-01-16 02:31 am UTC (link)
	"You mean like mutants?" Jamie crossed his arms over his chest, almost offended. He wasn't an alien. "Mutants aren't aliens!" "I have friends. Kinda. I'm home schooled." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2008-01-16 02:36 am UTC (link)
	Now she looked even more confused. "What are you talking about? What's a mutant?" "Ohh. I wish we didn't have school at all. It's so boring." The big dog came up behind her and Mia reached out to pet her again. "I think her name is Isabel. That's what her collar says. She was with me in the other room." The dog sniffed at Jamie for a minute, seeming confused. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_multiplicity
2008-01-16 02:39 am UTC (link)

"Do you like... live in a cave or something?" Jamie asked. He didn't realize he was being rude and he didn't mean it to come out as bad as it sounded. He just didn't understand how someone couldn't know about mutants. He lived in north bumblefuck, Kansas and he knew what mutants were. Mostly because he was one, of course.

Jamie liked animals well enough. He scritched behind the dog's ear. It seemed happy. "Good girl," he said, patting the dog. "I don't mind it that much. It's something to do," he said with a shrug.

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	miaj 2008-01-16 02:57 am UTC (link)
	"Do you?" she retorted. "You don't even know what a speeder is. Just cause you live on a farm, you should still know what a speeder is. I've never heard of a mutant and my dad tells me lots about the galaxy." Isabel licked Jamie's hand playfully in thanks and sat down next to them. Mia reached out to pet her some more. "Do you know what this planet's called?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_multiplicity 2008-01-16 03:01 am UTC (link)
	"I think you're weird," Jamie said in a pleasant voice. "And I thought I already told you... farm, not a cave. Farm!" He was grinning. This was more human interaction with someone who wasn't a parent in a good, long time. "Um. This is Earth." He gave her a look. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miaj
2008-01-16 03:05 am UTC (link)

She raised an eyebrow at him in a look that belonged to someone older than a ten-year-old. "Well, farm and cave sound like the same thing to me. ...I think you're weird too," she added after a slight pause, but she couldn't resist a small smile.

"Earth? I've never heard of it. What sector's it in?" She was trying to peek out the window again. The wheels on the cars fascinated her.

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_multiplicity
2008-01-16 03:09 am UTC (link)

"There's a big difference," Jamie said, almost proud. "I don't think they have cows in caves." As Mia looked out the window, he turned to look at the inside of the building. There were files and a desk. It all looked like an office he'd seen on TV. Jamie thought this all kinds of neat.

"Sector?" He scratched at the back of his neck. "I don't know. Are you really from outer space or are you playing a game on me?"

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	miaj 2008-01-16 03:13 am UTC (link)
	She wasn't entirely sure what cows were, and her look showed she thought he might still be some poor kid off a backwater planet. But he seemed okay. "What do you mean, outer space? Everyone's been to outer space. Haven't you been off-planet??" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_multiplicity 2008-01-16 03:15 am UTC (link)
	Jamie watched her closely for a minute. She was serious. And also an alien. He couldn't contain the big grin. It was so cool to be stuck in a room with an alien. "Uh. No. No one has here." A pause. "Well, I think some astronauts have in the 60s and after that, but they always come right back after a bounce on the moon." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2008-01-16 03:18 am UTC (link)
	He sounded like he sorta thought she was crazy, but he was grinning. But his words worried her a little bit. She didn't know where she was or how she'd gotten there and this kid hadn't even been off-planet. "Maybe I should try and find my parents." And another thought occurred to her. "I'm hungry." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_multiplicity
2008-01-16 03:21 am UTC (link)

"Do you have their phone number?" Now that Jamie thought about it, he didn't know how to call his parents. He'd never left home so it wasn't like he knew the standard procedure for this sort of thing. "Maybe they're around here." A pause. "Maybe we've been kidnapped or something." He didn't sound terribly concerned. "I don't remember even getting here. I'm pretty sure we're far from the farm." Another pause. "This is kinda cool."

He looked around. "Maybe there's food around. Wanna go look?"

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miaj
2008-01-16 03:25 am UTC (link)

"Phone number?" she repeated. "I have their comm frequency. ...I think." But as she searched her pockets, she didn't have a comlink. "Where did that go?"

Mia looked back up at him. "Kidnapped? Why would we be kidnapped?" Though she didn't remember how she got here either. "If we were kidnapped, we'd be tied up and stuff." She grinned. "It is kinda cool. We can go look for food and make sure we haven't been kidnapped."

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_multiplicity
2008-01-16 03:29 am UTC (link)

"You don't even know what a phone is? Jeeze." Jamie watched her search through her pockets. He looked himself up and down. He wasn't wearing his suit. He couldn't remember when he'd last worn regular clothes.

"Maybe not. Maybe our kidnappers aren't that kind of kidnapper. Maybe they just locked us in a building and want to watch us. Maybe we're in a zoo!" His smile grew as he spoke. "We should find food and then maybe try and figure out if we can escape."

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	miaj 2008-01-16 03:34 am UTC (link)
	"I'm looking for my comlink, stupid." But there wasn't any real malice or insult in her voice. "In a zoo?" She laughed some, but it was unclear whether she really thought he was funny or just strange. "I don't see any cameras. Let's go down that hallway and see if there's food anywhere." She pointed across the room. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_multiplicity 2008-01-16 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe you're from the future. Or Star Trek or something." Jamie thought aloud. "Mia, girl of the future," he said grandly. "I don't know what a comlink is." He added, for good measure, "Stupid." But he said it with a goofy grin on his face. "Okay." He nodded. "Should we take the dog with us? She could be a spy for the enemy." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2008-01-16 03:41 am UTC (link)
	"The future? No I'm not. What's Star Trek? And you call people on a comlink. You're the stupid one, Jamie." But she was grinning. Mia looked at Isabel. "I don't want the dog to be a spy. ...Maybe the dog was kidnapped! Like us." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_multiplicity
2008-01-16 03:45 am UTC (link)

Jamie had the strong urge to tug on Mia's hair. He only refrained because he hadn't been to normal school and thusly hadn't been taught in the way of young boy. "Well you're from outer space and you are talking about things I've never heard about outside of TV. I think you're from the future. Or an alien." A pause. "Maybe both." He nodded.

"Hm." Jamie crouched down for a moment so that he was at eye level with the dog. "I think she's okay," he said after inspecting her a minute. "She can come with us."

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miaj
2008-01-16 03:49 am UTC (link)

It was a good thing he didn't, because Mia punched boys who tugged on her hair or otherwise bugged her. She stared, confused, as he explained why she was an alien. This farm where he lived must be way out there. "But you never told me what a mutant was."

Isabel sniffed at Jamie's nose and attempted to lick his face. Mia watched. "Are you sure? I mean, she seems nice. She has an ID and everything."

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_multiplicity
2008-01-16 03:52 am UTC (link)

"Oh yeah." Jamie thought for a minute. Mia seemed trustworthy enough. "A mutant. Like me. People who are born different and can do things." That wasn't very descriptive. "Like this." Jamie stood up and stomped his foot. A dupe popped up beside him. The dupe was exactly like Jamie, even personality wise.

Before he could talk, Jamie reabsorbed him. He hoped Mia wasn't going to think he was a freak. But then, his parents had never really treated him like a freak. Maybe she'd be like them.

"The dog's with us," he said, as though he hadn't just done something out of the ordinary.

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	miaj 2008-01-16 03:56 am UTC (link)
	Her mouth dropped open and her eyes widened til they might pop out. This might be the coolest thing she'd ever seen. "What was that?" she breathed. "How did you do that? Do that again. How did you do that?" She was completely amazed. Mia just nodded now, still staring. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)